Joe Franklin's Encyclopedia of comedians.

Laugh : portraits of the greatest comedians and the funny stories they tell each other /
by: Claxton, William
Published: (1999)

Comedy explosion : a new generation /
by: Edahl, Ed
Published: (1991)

Seriously funny : the rebel comedians of the 1950s and 1960s /
by: Nachman, Gerald
Published: (2003)

Satiristas! : comedians, contrarians, raconteurs & vulgarians /
by: Provenza, Paul
Published: (2010)

The Jewish comedy catalog /
by: Lyman, Darryl, 1944-2010
Published: (1989)

Mixed nuts : America's love affair with comedy teams : from Burns and Allen to Belushi and Aykroyd /
by: Epstein, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Jeffrey)
Published: (2004)

The last laugh : the world of the stand-up comics /
by: Berger, Phil
Published: (1975)

More funny people /
by: Allen, Steve, 1921-2000
Published: (1982)

The laugh makers ; a pictorial history of American comedians /
by: Cahn, William, 1912-1976
Published: (1957)

Funny women : American comediennes, 1860-1985 /
by: Unterbrink, Mary, 1937-
Published: (1987)

The great American comedy scene /
by: Cahn, William, 1912-1976
Published: (1978)

Weber and Fields : their tribulations, triumphs, and their associates /
by: Isman, Felix, 1873-1943
Published: (2022)

The great clowns of Broadway /
by: Green, Stanley
Published: (1984)

Jewish jesters : a study in American popular comedy /
by: Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-
Published: (2001)

Notable women in the American theatre : a biographical dictionary /
Published: (1989)

Contemporary theatre, film, and television.
Published: (1984)

Hollywood baby boomers /
by: Parish, James Robert
Published: (1992)

The ultimate directory of silent and sound era performers : a necrology of actors and actresses /
by: Doyle, Billy H.
Published: (1999)

Making trouble /
Published: (2009)

The comic offense from vaudeville to contemporary comedy : Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle /
by: DesRochers, Rick
Published: (2014)

The biographical encyclopaedia & who's who of the American theatre /
by: Rigdon, Walter
Published: (1966)

History of the American stage ; containing biological sketches of nearly every member of the profession that has appeared on the American stage, from 1733 to 1870.
by: Brown, T. Allston (Thomas Allston), 1836-1918
Published: (1969)

History of the American stage : Containing biographical sketches of nearly every member of the profession that has appeared on the American stage, from 1733 to 1870 /
by: Brown, T. Allston (Thomas Allston), 1836-1918
Published: (1870)

Personality comedians as genre : selected players /
by: Gehring, Wes D.
Published: (1997)

The great movie comedians : from Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allen /
by: Maltin, Leonard
Published: (1978)

The great radio comedians.
by: Harmon, Jim
Published: (1970)

Joe Frisco : comic, jazz dancer, and railbird /
by: Lowry, Ed, 1896-1983
Published: (1999)

Comedian comedy : a tradition in Hollywood film /
by: Seidman, Steve
Published: (1981)

Show and tell : New Yorker profiles /
by: Lahr, John, 1941-
Published: (2000)

Joe E. Brown : film comedian and baseball buffoon /
by: Gehring, Wes D.
Published: (2006)

The decline and fall of the love goddesses /
by: Agan, Patrick
Published: (1979)

Forgotten leading ladies of the American theatre : lives of eight female players, playwrights, directors, managers, and activists of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries /
by: Turner, Mary M.
Published: (1990)

Brief chronicles.
by: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Published: (1970)

Marilyn Beck's Hollywood /
by: Beck, Marilyn
Published: (1973)

Role of a lifetime : four professional actors and how they built their careers /
by: Simonson, Robert
Published: (1999)

Titans of the American stage ; Edwin Forrest, the Booths, the O'Neills.
by: Shaw, Dale, 1927-
Published: (1971)